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Originally Posted by Wastedyouth
If they use lethal force on citizens, they've become no better than the countries they deride and look down on. They become one of those countries.
Things will change.
I hope they do not.
But it might be inevitable.
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If they don't maintain control, they're not a government. This is not a civil war between two armies (yet). They're a government dealing with a group of insurrectionists/criminals. They should treat them just as they would other criminals IMO, including through the use of lethal force if need be, just as police in the US do daily in other contexts. Being overrun is completely unacceptable.
I agree though that the optics would be bad either way, and the full consequences hard to know.